Articles

The Promise of Rain: Representation of Place in Louis Owens’s Nightland
Hana Sobotková

JFK and Jed Bartlet: Catholic Archetypes, Catholic Stereotypes, Catholic Fictions
John Andreas Fuchs

Sociological Storytelling in Film and Literature
Vincent N. Parrillo

Beyond Individual Space: The Symbolic Place of Indian Women in the Land of Diaspora in Anita Rau Badami’s Tell It to the Trees
Sofia Cavalcanti

The University as the Universe in Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding
Petr Anténe

Tearing the Reins of Language with Poetry
Pavel Gončarov

Interview

“We are in a dynamic of survival”: A Talk with Denis Côté on Québec Cinema\\at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, July 6, 2017
Marcel Arbeit

Review

A Horror and a Beauty: The World of Peter Ackroyd’s London Novels, by Petr Chalupský
Michal Peprník

Articles

The Specters of the Unspoken Past: Trauma in Graham Swift’s Wish You Were Here
Petr Chalupský

The American Dream in Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Evan Oxman

Racism and Fascism in Roger Corman’s Film Adaptation of Charles Beaumont’s The Intruder
Constante González Groba

Consonant but Dissonant to the (S)core: The Neo-Victorian “Afterings” of Sherlock Holmes’s Violin and Issues of Genre in the Sherlock Holmes Films by Guy Ritchie
Francesca Battaglia

Paul Valéry, Chuck Miller: An Imaginary Encounter, or, Two Ways of Looking at Poetry
Vincent Dussol

Historical Interview

“A pimple on the nose of history”: An Interview with Arthur Miller at the World Congress of the International PEN Club, Prague, November 7, 1994
Josef Jařab

Review

Writing on the Edge: Paratexts in Narrative Cinema, by Johannes Mahlknecht
(reviewed by Barbara Szot)

Spoiler Alert! Mind-Tricking Narratives in Contemporary Hollywood Film, by Cornelia Klecker
(reviewed by Elizabeth Woock)

Re-Imagining Nature’s Nation: Native American and Native Hawaiian Literature, Environment, and Empireby Claudia Deetjen
(reviewed by Hana Sobotková)

Where is History Today? New Ways of Representing the Pastby Marcel Arbeit and Ian Christie
(reviewed by Erik S. Roraback)

Articles

Blessed Family History: Inventing the Past in Louis Owens’s “Blessed Sunshine”>
Hana Sobotková

Mary Lambert’s Film Adaptation of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening: Edna Pontellier as an Aphrodite/Venus Figure in Grand Isle
Tara Hembrough

Negotiating the Quandaries of Post-9/11 Pakistani American Identity in Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced
Diana Benea

Bartleby as the Self-Portrait of a Philosopher: The Case of Gilles Deleuze
Tereza Stejskalová

Historical Interview

“It’s dangerous for poets to become dictators”: A Talk with Czesław Miłosz at Palacký University, Olomouc, June 2, 1993
Josef Jařab

Reviews

The South from Elsewhere, edited by Marcel Arbeit
(reviewed by Brad Vice)

The Representation of War in Nineteenth-Century American Novels, by Jozef Pecina
(reviewed by Gabriela Planková)

Articles

Ascension of the Pop Icon: The Creativity of Kitsch (Not Only) in a Music Video by Lana Del Rey
Tomáš Jirsa

Leonard Cohen, the Priest of a Catacomb Religion
Jiří Měsíc

“A Shameless Assimilationist” in a State of Evolution: The Issue of Assimilation and Cultural Identity in Richard Rodriguez’s Autobiographical Texts
Elżbieta Rokosz-Piejko

Transatlantic Voyages and Quests to the West in the Anglo-American Campus Novel of the 1960s: Malcolm Bradbury’s Stepping Westward and Bernard Malamud’s A New Life
Petr Anténe

The Women of Hawthorne’s and Kubrick’s Dreams: A Gendered Critique of “Young Goodman Brown” and Eyes Wide Shut
Saladin Ambar

Reviews

The Southern Mystique: Food, Gender and Houses in Southern Fiction and Films, by Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis
(reviewed by Nikol Šustrová)

Visual Representations of Native Americans: Transnational Contexts and Perspectives, edited by Karsten Fitz
(reviewed by Veronika Briatková and Veronika Rychlá)

Articles

Travels into History: Ernest J. Gaines’s African-American Odyssey in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Gérald Préher

The Sneaky Victory of a Genre: The Story of One Czech Western
Petr Bilík

“Becoming Anglicised?” The Increasing Importance of English Characters in the Exile Novels of Arthur Koestler and Robert Neumann
Matthias Weßel

Pound of the Beats: On Allen Ginsberg’s and Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Image of Ezra Pound
Jakub Guziur

The Inhuman in Paris and Mississippi: Mapping the Real Estate of Genre in Barry Hannah’s Yonder Stands Your Orphan
Brad Vice

Historical Interview

“Don’t Believe a Word of It”: A Conversation with William Gass at Viola, Prague, August 1, 1995
Josef Jařab

Book Reviews

Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed, by Sherryl Vint
(reviewed by Juraj Bakoš)

The Health of the Nation, edited by Meldan Tanrisal and Tanfer Emin Tunç
(reviewed by Ivan Čipkár)

Articles

A Literary Genealogy: Faulkner, García Márquez, and Mo Yan
M. Thomas Inge

Paul Robeson’s Ambiguous Film Legacy
Paul Von Blum

The Cognitive Model of the Vampire and Its Accommodation in the Twentieth Century
Ivan Čipkár

Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans Identities in Orange Is the New Black
Michaela Weiss

An American Maqama: Interweaving East and West in Ameen Rihani’s The Book of Khalid
Zuzana Tabačková

“English, Female, Tourist”: Coping with Otherness in Janice Galloway’s Foreign Parts
Markéta Gregorová

Interview

“Lack of imagination breeds all sorts of ills”: A Conversation with Fred Chappell
Marcel Arbeit

Reviews

The Edinburgh Companion to James Kelman, edited by Scott Hames
(reviewed by Jan Horáček)

Prague English Studies and the Transformation of Philologies,
edited by Martin Procházka and Ondřej Pilný
(reviewed by Michal Peprník)

Articles

Love and Death in 1950s Suburbia: The Novel and Film Revolutionary Road
Richard A. Voeltz

National and Transnational Identities in Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh
Radek Glabazňa

Ethnic Diaspora through the Kitchen: Foodways in the Postcolonial Feminist Discourse of Gurinder Chadha’s What’s Cooking?
Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis

Consumption and Communion in a Changing South: Food and Feasting in the Fiction of Thomas Wolfe, Eudora Welty, and Three Southern Writers of the Next Generation
Waldemar Zacharasiewicz

American History as a Ragtime Tune: E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime
Josef Jařab

Reviews

Adaptation Studies: New Challenges, New Directions, edited by Jørgen Bruhn, Anne Gjelsvik, and Eirik Frisvold Hanssen
(reviewed by Elżbieta Rokosz-Piejko)

Narcoepics: A Global Aesthetics of Sobriety, by Hermann Herlinghaus
(reviewed by Markéta Riebová

‘Forever Young’? The Changing Images of America, edited by Philip Coleman and Stephen Matterson
(reviewed by Helena Šváchová)

Articles

James Fenimore Cooper as a Western Author and the 1920 Film Adaptation of The Last of the Mohicans
Michal Peprník

“I Will Pay That Price as a Poet to Speak My Truth”: Feminism, Activism, and the Historical Moment of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls
Christopher Tucker

Playing in the Dark and Dirt: Dorothy Allison’s Bastard out of Carolina and Tomboyism in the American South
Veronika Klusáková

Translation and Therapy: Susan Howatch’s St Benet’s Trilogy
Suzanne Bray

The Sense(s) of Place in British Columbian and Californian Nature Writing
Petr Kopecký

Men of Honor: William Alexander Percy and Ernest Hemingway as Gentlemen Soldiers
Clara Juncker

Reviews

A Century under the Spirit of Mark Twain, 1910–2010, edited by Ramona Demarcsek, Minodora Barbul, and Ligia Tomoiagă
(reviewed by Dana Straková)

Jewishness as Humanism in Bernard Malamud’s Fiction, by Michaela Náhliková
(reviewed by Alena Smiešková)

Articles

P. L. Travers, Walt Disney, and the Making of Mary Poppins
M. Thomas Inge

Barry Hannah: In the Academy but Not of It
Brad Vice

Growing Up Barbadian American: Assimilation, Ethnicity and Identity in Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall
Šárka Bubíková

Tipping the History: Gender Performances and Costumes That Matter in Sarah Waters’s Tipping the Velvet
Michaela Weiss

Pop Music and Politics in Drama: Stewart Parker and Tom Stoppard
Ondřej Pilný

Nostalgia and Condemnation of the Past in Post-Stalinist Czech Novels
Joanna Diane Caytas

Reviews

E pluribus unum or E pluribus plura? Unity and Diversity in American Culture, edited by Hans-Jürgen Grabbe, David Mauk, and Ole Moen
(reviewed by Gregory Jason Bell)

Reading Philip Roth’s American Pastoral, edited by Velichka D. Ivanova
(reviewed by Josef Jařab)

The Death of the Critic, by Rónán McDonald
(reviewed by Michal Kleprlík)